For Immediate Release February 6, 2006

For More Information Contact: Diane Brown, 317-274-7711 habrown@iupui.edu

9/11 Compensation Director to Speak at IU School of Law-Indianapolis

Kenneth R. Feinberg, special master of the 9/11 victim compensation fund.

INDIANAPOLIS – The director of the compensation fund for victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks will speak this month at the IU School of Law- Indianapolis, located on the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis campus.

Kenneth R. Feinberg, special master of the 9/11 victim compensation fund, will present “Victim Compensation Fund - Private Pain and Public Compensation” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in the Wynne Courtroom of the Inlow Hall law school building, 530 W. New York St.

Gov. Mitch Daniels is scheduled to introduce Feinberg. Following the lecture, a reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Conour Atrium at Inlow Hall.

Feinberg, an attorney, is the author of numerous articles and essays on mediation, mass torts and other matters and has recently published his book entitled, “What Is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11.”

“The 9/11 VCF was unprecedented in its scope and generosity. At the same time, it raises critically important issues concerning its use as a precedent for future compensation and whether, in a democracy, society should carve out for special treatment a small group of those citizens victimized by life's misfortunes,” Feinberg said.

Feinberg is one of the nation's leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. As special master, he has developed and promulgated the regulations concerning the administration of the 9/11 VCF and administered all aspects of the program, including evaluating applications, determining appropriate compensation and disseminating awards.

Feinberg has served as a mediator and arbitrator in thousands of disputes involving such issues as mass torts, breach of contract, antitrust violations, civil fraud, and product liability, to name a few. He was one of three arbitrators selected to determine the fair market value of the original Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination and was one of two arbitrators selected to determine the allocation of legal fees in the Holocaust slave labor litigation.

His lecture at IUPUI is being sponsored by the IU School of Law-Indianapolis and the Center on Philanthropy, part of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

For additional information, call (317) 278-3038.

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Note to Editors, Reporters: Ken Feinberg is available for phone interviews from his Washington, D.C. office prior to his guest lecture at IUPUI. To arrange an interview, call (202) 371-1110.